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Michele L. Adelman

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Michele Adelman brings over a decade of state and federal prosecutorial experience to her counsel of corporations, officers, directors and other individuals in government investigations - including criminal, civil, regulatory, and Congressional investigations - and related complex civil litigations. Michele has successfully defended individuals, corporations and non-profit and for-profit institutions facing allegations of securities fraud, such as insider trading, market manipulation and false representations, and healthcare fraud, such as illegal kickbacks and off-label drug promotion.

Michele has extensive experience defending companies and individuals targeted by Senate and House Committee investigations. She also has conducted internal investigations for corporations and has advised corporations and individuals on a variety of compliance issues related to pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and hedge funds and other investment advisors. Michele’s litigation and compliance work for clients often focus on issues relating to computer crimes and electronic evidence, areas in which she has extensive experience. She also counsels on issues involving information privacy and security.

Before joining Foley Hoag in 2006, Michele had served for four years as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. While Deputy Chief, she managed and supervised over 100 personnel assigned to the Criminal Bureau, led the grand jury investigation of the Boston Archdiocese relating to allegations of sexual abuse of children, and prosecuted complex cases involving public corruption and economic crime.

From 1994 to 2002 Michele served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that position she prosecuted cases in the General Crimes, Narcotics, Business and Securities Fraud and Computer Crimes Units and served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Unit. She prosecuted a range of high profile cases including those involving charges of complex securities fraud, market manipulation, internet fraud and money laundering. She entered legal practice as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a litigator at a major national law firm.

Panel Participant: "The New Massachusetts Regulations Mandating Disclosure of Payments by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies: What will be disclosed? How will this data be collected? How will this change things?," Criminal Law and Health Law Sections, Boston Bar Association (October 2009)

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